The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 13, 1904, Page 1

Ae ONE CENT Tonight and Thursday fresh south to weet winds, NIGHT EDITION Showers; cooler 3, 1904 . The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 VOL 6 THE 7 NO. 45 ONLY PAPER THAT DARES TO PRIN 2 RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP HAS “ IN SEATTLE T THE NEWS 5 CENTS PER MONTH BEEN DESTROYED BY A MINE The Petropaviovsk Was Blown to Pieces in the Harbor of Port Arthur and all Her Crew Except Four Officers Were Lost=Admiral Makaroff Is Among the Dead @y ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 1.—THE WORST DISASTER THAT Sortpps News Ass'n) HAS BEFALLEN RUSSIAN ARMS SINCE THE WAR BEGAN OC. CURRED IN THE OPEN ROADSTEAD JUST OUTSIDE THE HAR BOR OF PORT ARTHUR THIS MORNING, WHEN THE FIRST CLASS BATTLESHIP PETROPAVLOVSK , FLYING THE FLAG OF VICE-ADMIRAL MAKAROFF, THE ACTIVE COMMANDER OF THE RUSSIAN NAVAL FORCES IN THE FAR EAST, RAN ONTO A FLOATING MINE AND WAS BLOWN UP. HER WHOLE COMPLEMENT OF OFFICERS AND MEN, NUM- BERING OVER 700, WERE TORN TO PIECES BY THE FORCE OF THE EXPLOSION OR DROWNED IN THE WATERS OF THE BAY WHEN THE SHIP TURNED TURTLE AND SANK, EXCEPT ONLY FOUR OFFICERS, INCLUDING GRAND DUKE CYRIL, COUSIN OF THE CZAR, WHO WAS ACTING AS AN AIDE-DE-CAMP ON MAKAROFF'S STAFF AND ACCOMPANIED HIM ON A CRUISE FROM WHICH THE WARSHIP WAS RETURNING WHEN SHE CAME IN CONTACT WITH THE MINE. CYRIL AND THE THREE SURVIVING OFFICERSWERE SEVERELY THOUGH NOT DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED, AND THEIR ESCAPE IS CONSID. BRED A MIRACLE. FIRST NEWS OF DISASTER THE FIRST INKLING OF A DISASTER CAME IN THE FORM OF A RUMOR, ORIGINATING IN PARIS, TO THE EFFECT THAT THE JAPANESE HAD CAPTURED MAKAROFF WHILE HE WAS OUT MAKING ONE OF HIS USUAL SORTIES IN A SMALL BOAT. THIS RUMOR WAS RECEIVED WITH INDIFFERENCE IN 8T. PETERSBURG AND GIVEN SCARCELY ANY CREDENCE. IN A FEW MINUTES, HOWEVER, RUMORS CAME OF AN OVERWHELMING DISASTER TO THE RUSSIAN FLEET, TO- GETHER WITH A REPORT OF THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL MAK- AROFF, THE HERO OF THE HOUR AT PORT ARTHUR, THE ONLY MAN WHO, IT 1S BELIEVED, COULD KEEP THE JAPA- N FROM STORMING THE CITY. IT WAS STATED THAT THE JAPANESE FLEET HAD AT- TACKED THE CITY AND THAT MAKAROFF HAD STEAMED OUT OF THE INNER HARBOR WITH HiS FULL FLEET AND ENGAGED IN BATTLE, DURING THE COURSE OF WHICH HIS FLAGSHIP AND TWO OTHERS HAD FALLEN INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. STILL THE OFFICIALS WERE INCREDULOUS, BUT WHE A SEMI-OFFICIAL DISPATCH WAS RECEIVED THAT THE PE- TROPAVLOVSK, THE PRIDE OF THE PORT ARTHUR FLEET, HAD BEEN SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD, THE CONSTERNA- TION CAN HARDLY BE CONCEIVED. OFFICIAL REPORT STUNS RUSSIANS THEN CAME THE OFFICIAL DISPATCHES TO THE Gov- ERNMENT CONFIRMING THE REPORTS OF THE DISASTER, AND THEN fT BEGAN TO DAWN ON THE OFFICIALS THAT THE GREATEST REVERSE OF THE WAR HAD BEEN SUFFERED. THE STILL MEAGER REPORTS OF THE CATASTROPHE STATE THAT MAKAROFF, ACCOMPANIED BY GRAND DUKE CYRIL, STARTED OUT OF THE HARBOR FOR A CRUISE OUT ATSEA,IN THE HOPE OF SIGHTING THE JAPANES FLEET, WHICH HAD PASSED PORT ARTHUR IN THE DIRECTION OF NEWCHWANG. THE CRUISE PROVED FRUITLESS, AND THE PETROPAV- LOVSK WAS HEADING BACK FOR THE INNER HARBOR, WHEN, WiTHouT AN INKLING OF THE AWFUL DANGER, SHE RAN INTO ONE OF THE LARGE MINES WHICH WERE SUNK IN THE CHANNEL IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FIRST JAPA- NESE ASSAULT ON THE CITY. THE PETROPAVLOVSK SEEMED TO RISE NEARLY OUT OF a! THE WATER, WITH GAPING HOLES IN HER PORT SIDE LISTED HEAVILY, THEN COMPLETELY TURNED TURTLE AND SANK BENEATH THE WAVES. GRAND DUKE CYRIL ESCAPES OFFICIAL REPORTS TO THE GENERAL NAVAL STAFF CONFIRM THE EARLIER DISPATCHES REGARDING THE DIS- ASTER, EXCEPT THAT THESE REPORTS CLAIM THAT TWEN TY-FIVE MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF THE BATTLESHIP, IN CLUDING GRAND DUKE CYRIL, ESCAPED. HOW THEY DID 80 18 CONSIDERED MIRACULOUS, FOR THEY WERE ALL MORE OR LESS BADLY WOUNDED. CYRIL, IT 18 STATED, WAS HURLED SEVERAL RODS FROM THE SCENE OF THE EX PLOSION AND SANK. HE CAME UP DIRECTLY AND, THOUGH SUFFERING TERRIBLY FROM HIG WOUNDS, STRUCK OUT BOLDLY FOR THE SHORE AND SUCCEEDED IN REACHING IT IN A STATE OF COMPLETE EXHAUSTION FROM LOSS OF BLOOD AND THE GREAT EXERTION, THE FIRST REPORTS STATED THAT TWO OTHER WAR SHIPS HAD BEEN SERIOUSLY DAMAGED, BUT THESE RE PORTS CANNOT BE CONFIRMED. WHEN THE CZAR HEARD OF THE CATASTROPHE IT 18 STATED THAT HE NEARLY COLLAPSED, BUT AT ONCE DIS- PATCHED A COURIER TO MME. MAKAROFF TO CONVEY HIS CONDOLENCES TO HER. HE THEN WENT INTO CONFERENCE WITH THE GENERAL STAFF. GRAND DUKE VLADIMIR, FATHER OF GRAND DUKE CY. RIL, RECEIVED A DISPATCH FROM GRAND DUKE BORIS STAT- ING THAT CYRIL'S WOUND WAS SLIGHT AND NO MENTION 18 MADE IN THE TELEGRAM OF THE LOSSES OF THE CREW. THANKSGIVING SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE PALACE BY VLADIMIR BECAUSE HIS SON'S LIFE WAS SPARED. THE ILL-FATED WARSHIP WAS PRIDE OF PORT ARTHUR FLEET THE PETROPAVLOVSK WAS A BATTLESHIP OF THE FIRST CLASS, WITH A TONNAGE OF 10,960. HER MAIN BATTERY CONSISTED OF FOUR 12-INCH GUNS, SUPPLEMENTED BY A BATTERY OF TWELVE 6-INCH GUNS HER SECONDARY BATTERY CONS! GUNS. HER RATED SPEED WAS 16.84 KNOTS AN HOUR. SHE Wag A SISTER SHIP OF THE POLTAVA AND THE SEVASTOPOL. VICE-ADMIRAL GRIGOROWITCH, AT PORT ARTHUR, SENDS THE FOLLOWING OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF THE PETROPAVLOVSK “THE PETROPAVLOVSK STRUCK A MINE AT THE EN- TRANCE OF THE HARBOR TODAY. THE MINE EXPLODED AND THE VESSEL OVERTURNED. OUR SQUADRON WAS NEAR GOLDEN MOUNTAIN AT THE TIME AND THE JAPANESE WERE APPROACHING THE PORT. VICE-ADMIRAL MAKA- ROFF 1S APPARENTLY DEAD. “GRAND DUKE CYRIL, CAPTAIN YAKOVLEFF, FIVE OFFI- CERS AND 32 SAILORS ESCAPED. A NUMBER OF BODIES HAVE BEEN RECOVERED.” SHE ED OF 39 SMALLER ALREDY WAS ON HER WAY TO BATTLE ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 13.—-A REPORT, RECEIVED LATE THIS AFTERNOON, SAYS THAT THE PETROPAVLOVSK WAS BLOWN UP WHILE LEADING THE RUSSIAN FLEET TO AN AT- TACK AGAINST THE JAPANES E, WHO APPEARED OFF THE HARBOR THIS MORNING. FURTHER REPORTS STAT E THAT A NAVAL BATTLE IS BEING FOUGHT IN THE HARBOR BETWEEN THE COMBINED FLEET OF JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS, CRUISERS AND TORPE- ] | CAPT. SAKOVLEPF The Rueslan cruiser Petropaviovmk in snded by Capt. Jakoviett DO BOATS AND THE RUSSIAN FLEET. THE JAPS ARE BE- LIEVED TO HAVE MADE AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE THE FORT BUT WERE MET BY ADMIRAL MAKAROFF AND HIS FLEET BEFORE REACHING STRIKING DISTANCE. THE MANY REPORTS ARE CONFUSING AND IT 18 DIFFI- CULT AT THIS HOUR TO ASCERTAIN WHETHER A NAVAL BATTLE HAS BEEN FOUGHT OR WHAT HAS BEEN ITS RE SULTS, THERE IS NO DOUBT, HOWEVER, ABOUT THE Loss OF THE PETROPAVLOVSK ANDO THE DEATH OF MAKAROFF. THE ILL-FATED SHIP WAS ONE OF RUSSIA'S NEWEST SEA FIGHTERS, HAVING BEEN COMPLETED ONLY SIX YEARS AGO. IT 16 BELIEVED THAT THE WHOLESALE LOSS OF LIFE AMONG OFFICERS AND MEN WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT EVERYONE OF THEM WAS AT HIS POST READY FOR ACTION. THE OFFICERS WHO ESCAPED WERE STANDING ON THE BRIOGE. A GREAT Loss TO RUSSIA LONDON, APRIL 13-—THE LOSS OF ADMIRAL MAK- AROFF IS A BLOW TO RUSSIAN NAVAL POWER HARD TO BE ESTIMATED. HE WAS THE VERY HEART OF RUSSIAN AG- GRESSION AT PORT RATHUR, FOR PREVIOUS TO THE TIME WHEN HE ASSUMED THE DIRECTION OF NAVAL AFFAIRS, THE RUSSIAN WARSHIPS CROUCHED, SHIVERING UNDER THE GUNS OF THE FORTS, AWAITING THE RENEWAL OF THE IN- TERMITTENT ATTACKS OF THE JAPANESE FLEET, AND WHEN THE JAPANEGE APPEARED THEY SPLUTTERED BACK IN A BLIND WAY. INSTEAD OF THIS, ADMIRAL MAKAROFF ACTUALLY AS- SUMED THE OFFENSIVE. ON THE NIGHT OF MARCH 10 HE SENT SIX TORPEDO BOATS OUT TO SEA TO LOOK FOR THE JAPANESE WARSHIPS. THESE MET THE ENEMY AND A HOT FIGHT ENSUED, EACH SIDE SUSTAINING THE LOSS OF ONE BOAT. OBSERVING THAT ONE OF HIS BOATSWAS FOUNDERING, MAKAROFF WENT OUT WITH TWO CRUISERS TO FACE THE ENTIRE JAPANESE FLEET, BUT HE WAS TOO LATE TO BE OF ANY ASSISTANCE. SUCH ACTION HAS BEENA FECT INDEX OF HIS WORK SINCE THAT TIME, AND HE HAD SUCCEEDED IN INFUSING NEW LIFE INTO THE OLD DRY BONES OF PORT ARTHUR. BATTLE STILL RAGES M 0 P. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 13.5 THE LATEST OFFI CIAL REPORT 18 THAT THE NAVAL BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO FLEETS I8 STILL RAGING AT PORT ARTHUR. TE WHOLB RUSSIAN SQUADRON IS IN THE ATTACK AGAL RS 16 BATTLESHIPS TORPEDO BOATS AND THR BNPMY'S FI , WHICH NUMB AND CRUISERS AND OVER A SCORE TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS, 1 AN OFFICIAL DISPATCH FROM PORT ARTHUR LATE THIS EVENING STATES THAT THE JAPANESE FLEET, AFTER A PATTLE WITH THE RUSSIAN FORTS, WHICH RAGED NEARLY ALL DAY, HAS RETIRED AND I8 NOW STATIONED AT LIAT. SHAN, TO THE SOUTH OF PORT ARTHUR. NO DETAILS OF THE BATTLE OR ITS RESULTS ARE AT HAND, ST. PETERSBURG, April 13.—The Port Arthur, the confirmation of the capital is Overwhelmed with the stun-| fearful disaeter comes through sources ruction of the| of such high standing that {ts truth paviovek and the death] cannot be ¢ ff at Port Ar-| Am the news spreads through the Jetty the p als- ficlal departments Keep | cussing it The adding greatly to the unecer-| blow ha to cause DITIONAL WAR NEWS PAGE 3 zk adh. | wh the t Although he in sp with taking $5,000, 1 What he hag done w not known, as It te said } been living extrave single man and had ploy of Crane Broa When seen in the McDonald r wn that he gave and was CONFESSES | HIS GRIME. en f ng Maka placed would n red te the Jaane FEERLE OLD WOMA (8 THE WGI OF MELE S PERSECUTION Mra niece Ella of Mra the late B. out a writ of habeas corpus directed against © Mra, Day trusted servant, charging them with r lady of her liberty of preventing her re seeing her. In the affidavit on which the writ was iexved, ¥. Mre Revington Francis Day, Day, last night sued Bveritt Smith of hav a grand wife of rett Smith, attorney for Marthine and George Peck Westby, a training the or the pur tives from Bevington charges defrauded Mrs. Day of valuable property by persuading B. F. Day to.make a will in ais favor. Mrs. Bevington is said to have been instrumental in persuading Mre. Day, who is old and feeble, to bring a divorce suit against ber husband, worry over deeding her le lots, she ta now trying.to get hold of the rest of | the estate, jar ac which, physicians say, shortened his | claims that as she Is the life. 5 only re ative which Mrs. Day has in this part of the country she ought to be allowed free acoess to her aunt's home. Mrs. Bell Day was brought into Judge court this morning by @ dep-| uly sheriff. Her attorneys, to whom | the writ was directed, had been served with no notice. The old lady wept bitterly, Judge} Bell took her into his chambers and after talking with her, learned that the Is perfectly contented with ar-| tween rangements which her husband, be-| |, fore hia death, made for her com- fort. had She told Judge Bell that «| never been restrained of her Nberty at all except one time about a week ago when Mrs. Bevington | | fucceeded in entering the house and/ locked her into a room so that she could not telephone to her lawyers. Judge Bell at once discharged Mrs. Day from custody wt m Mr. and Mrs. Day became reconciled Mr, Day made a will leay- ing all his property to Everitt Smith | and Marthine Westby in trust for he wife. Mrs. Day was, under the terms of the will, to have the use of the money until her death, when {t would revert to Mr. Smith, who has been his at- torney for years, and Marthine West- | by, the old servant who was named as correspondent tn the @ © suit ¢ Mrs. Day lear that the charges against Marthine Westby were utterly unfounded, she has re fused to be 4 from her, ar since Mr, I the two old we men have Everett Smith Mrs. Day shou {nto court by her niece at a time when she i# nearly prostrated with grief at her husband's death. He claims that Mrs, Bevington’s only interest In Mra, Day is to make sure of securing the Day rty in Fre- mont, at her death, "The woman will stop at nothing,” he said this morn- ing. ‘Some step will have to be taken to prevent her from annoying Mrs Day further, Mra. Vevington, of course, can contest Mr. Day's will, if she desires to do so, but before the day is out I will see if some arrange: | ment cannot be made whereby Mrs. Day will be protected from her. She has made enough trouble for the poor old lady. Not content with coercing Mra. Day her character, Mr. ie t unt of the char due. purpose f Mr Day's will was perfectly valid. that he made me his legateg Mar Westby, who, om made against ht much was made his will for the sol of keeping the Bevingtong r imc he m getting hold of any more of his to us wat name amounta to only « fe M Mise Weatby and I only property in trust for Mra gh at her death it revert present the prop we win the sult, ding against the Bevingtons, & deed to vi ble lots whicky sroed Mra, Day deed to her, to the estate will be worth much more.” Bevington claims that Smith has poisoned her aunt's mind agains§ Pro ing sep even the that she will not submi Dayg wish. , rated from Mrs. gh it is the old lad: DISMISSED ceedings against W. H. Bai to remove him as executor of t! estate of the late Anna Hermon were dismissed by Superior Judge Bell yesterday on a stipulation bee the parties, Fred Harmot the heir, having testified that he had not authorized the co-execus | tor, George W. Thomas, to bring the suit. WORKMEN HOLD GRAND LODGE Nearly 200 delegates to the Grand Lodge of the A. O. U. W. met thit morning in Pythian hall to elect of- ficers for the ensuing year and ta give free rein to their brotherly love. The session will last three days. The election of of,ficers will be held this afternoon. KILLED YFALL B. R. Hoffman of the Peacock Lume ber company’s will, four miles from Renton, today notified Coroner Hoyo that a man by the ni e of Andrew Scolner, ho was re ing to his home early this morning, In an Ine toxicated condition. thrown from his wagon and died shortly afterwards from his ijurtes. The body will be brought to the Boney-Watson morgue in this efty, Mrs, ¥. M scock announces the engagement of her daughter, Barbara Maud Glasscock to Judge B. J. Nudd. Mr, Nudd and Mise < k will be married In May,